The Video Game Attic reviews boxing games for Slickster Magazine.
11/19/2015
Aaron’s Arcade – Boxing Games
With Sylvester Stallone’s upcoming Rocky rehash, Creed hitting the theaters next week, we decided to cash in with a knock-out gaming review.
Ok, start the timer, I’m gonna cram as a many boxing puns as I can into this page. Aaron Lambert over at The Video Game Attic got in our corner and agreed to help us out with some vintage game reviews. He took some jabs at a few of the shitty titles and blazed through the others.
Tell us your favorite boxing game in the comments below.
No boxing video game review list would be complete without Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! Any child of the 80s knows that this was by far the best punching game that was ever released. It was fun, entertaining, and easy enough to play, but hard enough to have extremely high replay value. It struck that perfect balance that so many games of the era missed out on. Did I mention it was hard? Mike Tyson, the ear-chomping badass himself, is the final boss of the game. If you never tried to beat him, you are in for a lesson in how to rage quit. One-punch knockouts and extremely random patterns make even the most iron jawed player wilt.
Oh, and if you’re lazy like we are at Slickster Magazine and want to skip ahead of all the glorious racial stereotype characters (…remember a time before being PC was a thing…) to fight Iron Mike, here are the cheat codes for you. You’re welcome.
| 135 792 468, press A+B+Select on the last number. | Another World Circuit |
| 800 422 2602 | Busy Signal |
| 075 541 6113 | Busy Signal 1 |
| 206 882 2040 | Busy Signal 2 |
| 267 853 7537 | Change Record to 89W – 2L – 89KO |
| 005 373 5423 | Don Flamenco |
| 005 737 5432 | Major Circuit |
| 005 737 5423 | Major Circuit |
| 007 373 5963 | Mike Tyson |
| 032 730 8442 | Piston Honda (2nd fight) |
| 231 750 7438 | Super Macho Man, 0W – 0L |
| 267 853 7538 | Super Macho Man, 13W – 0L |
| 239 950 7638 | Super Macho Man, 20W – 0L |
| 239 010 7738 | Super Macho Man, 30W – 0L |
| 277 754 7438 | Super Macho Man, 40W – 0L |
| 277 814 7538 | Super Macho Man, 50W – 0L |
| 275 954 7638 | Super Macho Man, 60W – 0L |
| 275 014 7738 | Super Macho Man, 70W – 0L |
| 131 760 7438 | Super Macho Man, 80W – 0L |
| 131 820 7538 | Super Macho Man, 90W – 0L |
| 940 861 8538 | Super Macho Man, 99W – 0L |
| 106 113 0120, press Select+A+B to register password | View The Credits |
| 777 807 3454 | World Circuit |
Oh, and don’t forget to press select on the keypad between rounds. Watch carefully as your fight trainer, Doc, rapidly pumps his fist up and down on Little Mac. Of course, it looks he’s cheering his diminutive prize fighter on, but every ten-year-old boy in America made it into a big masturbation joke. Thanks, Nintendo.
This Thanksgiving, relieve the awesome 80s of Stallone mania and go see Creed. Listen to some James Brown, don Mr. T’s tons-of-gold necklaces or sport an Ivan Drago buzz cut. In a world before MMA, you might find you get a little pumped up when the classic theme song comes on. Run some stairs, do some push-ups, and raise your hands in the air. Yeah, you did that once before when no one was looking. We all did.
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